Director, SRE

Job Description

Job Description

$175,000 - $220,000 + VIP Bonus

$175,000 - $220,000 / year + Bonus

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solution are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

The Director, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) will lead reliability, performance, and observability initiatives for a portfolio of Vertafore products. This role owns SLIs/SLOs, incident response, automation, and CI/CD practices for assigned product families. Directors will manage multiple teams and collaborate with Product Development, Architecture, Cloud Operations, Information Security, and other SRE leaders to ensure operational excellence. This role is responsible for bridging the gap between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration. You will own the lifecycle of services - from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Reliability Leadership

o Define and enforce SLIs/SLOs for a subset of Vertafore flagship products.

o Drive observability strategy across application and infrastructure layers.

• Release Engineering & Toil Reduction

o Oversee CI/CD pipelines for product deployments using tools like GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, LaunchDarkly.

o Monitor and cap "Toil" (manual, repetitive operational work) at 50% using Automation and AI tools, ensuring the team spends the remaining time on project work that scales the system.

• Error Budget Management

o Manage "Error Budgets" to balance the velocity of feature releases with the stability of the platform, ensuring clear consequences when budgets are exhausted.

• Incident Management

o Define and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations for assigned products; ensure rapid resolution and blameless postmortems.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration

o Partner with Cloud Ops on capacity planning, OS patching (app tier), and load balancing (ALB, F5).

o Align reliability goals with product roadmaps and customer SLAs.

• Team Leadership

o Manage a group of Managers and Engineers, mentor teams on automation, observability, and reliability best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

• 15+ years in Software Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or reliability roles; 8+ years in leadership.

• Proven ability to leverage software engineering principles and practices to solve reliability and operational challenges.

• Expertise in CI/CD, observability, and incident response.

• Strong AWS knowledge and experience with container orchestration.

• Proven ability to lead reliability programs across multiple SaaS products.

• Experience architecting applications or infrastructure for high-growth cloud platforms.

• Experience in B2B SaaS environments involving large-scale distributed systems.

• Proven leadership communicating and influencing at team, peer, and leadership levels.

• Demonstrated experience driving operational excellence through metrics and KPIs.

• (Preferred) Background supporting financial services, healthcare, or regulated industries.

THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.

· Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.

· Win Together: We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.

· Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.

· Say It, Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.

· Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.

· We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.

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Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings .

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

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